A look at Flipper Zero, a $200 portable security penetration testing device for hackers to intercept and replay signals from IoT sensors, garage doors, and more
Don't be fooled by its fun name and Tamagotchi-like interface—this do-everything gadget is trouble waiting to happen and a whole lot more. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @car...
Opinion: Apple has the technical chops to safely open up its NFC chip for third party payments apps, and the main reason it is not doing it is the revenue
Oil fluctuated as investors weighed a pledge by the G7 … John Gruber / Daring Fireball : ★ Noted Interaction Design and Security Expert Margrethe Vestager Redesigns the iPhone's NFC Support Ewdison Th...
Many internet privacy proposals circulating today are in direct conflict with those to increase market competition, as they would further entrench big platforms
The consumer internet industry spent two decades building a huge, complex, chaotic pile of tools and systems to track and analyse … Tweets: @matthew_d_green , @cnbctechcheck , @sgtholly , @privacymatt...
A German security researcher claims he was able to break into the microcontroller of Apple's AirTag, allowing him to modify its NFC URL
José Adorno / 9to5Mac :
A German security researcher claims he was able to break into the microcontroller of Apple's AirTag, allowing him to modify its NFC URL
The Apple AirTag has been released almost ten days ago. Since then, we have seen a user rebuilding an AirTag as a thinner card that fits into wallets …
Sources: Chinese hackers are thought to have hacked a payroll agency inside the US Dept. of Agriculture in 2020 by exploiting another bug in SolarWinds software
Update Now Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek : China-Linked Hackers Exploited SolarWinds Flaw in U.S. Government Attack: Report Phil Muncaster / infosecurity-magazine.com : US Payroll Agency Targeted in Se...
Apple says it has declined to implement 16 new Web APIs in Safari because they posed a threat to user privacy by opening new avenues for user fingerprinting
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @filipnest , @carnage4life , @jwildeboer , @icanzilb , @usbcguy , and @elliottz Tweets: Filip Hnzdo / @filipnest : Translation: Apple is as usual scared of losing ap...
Apple's integrated approach is fostering monopolistic behavior and has started to stifle innovation resulting in user-hostile keyboards and no NFC based apps
When I started Stratechery in 2013, the conventional wisdom was that modularized ecosystems were best.
Android bug impacting all Android 8 or later devices lets hackers plant malware via NFC beaming and circumvent the installation security prompt; patch available
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
YubiKey maker Yubico says it does not manufacture Google's security keys and that Bluetooth-based keys are not as secure as NFC and USB-based keys
Stina Ehrensvard / Yubico :